Andrew Niccol Quotes
You have two choices when someone changes your work. You can either wash your hands of it or embrace it.
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I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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I'm a child of the Women's Movement. I always believed that I could do anything. That women didn't have to be limited in any way.
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You have, in America, you have gang signs. Well, 5,000 years ago, there was thing called a mudra, which is your sitting position when you do yoga or you're meditating or you're praying or whatever. And there's not a lot of them that are named after gods and goddesses, but the middle-finger is specifically named the Matangi mudra.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.
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People sometimes wear shirts that are really boxy, and you can see them over the top of their trousers, which doesn't look right to me.
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In sport, a massive amount is to do with genetics.
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If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
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I'm half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times.
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In terms of the movie business, being in a 'Lord of the Rings' has given me more interesting options as work.
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I have never declared myself an Indigenous politician; I am not an Indigenous Chief Minister.
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I have always been involved in my school's music program.
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I focus a little more on pacing when I write books in the young adult category, and of course there's the great American fear of anything sexual, so that's somewhat backed off in YA.
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It's interesting to play a real-life person who has already been a character on 'Saturday Night Live.'
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We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.
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There is one God - supreme among gods and men - who is like mortals in neither body nor mind.
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'What will they do when they have only the herbs' he asked her.'Live or die as best they can,' she said. 'Everything truly alive dies sooner or later.'
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Don't tell me peace has broken out.
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The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.
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I think you don't do work for controversy alone, and whenever you do new work which people don't understand and they say it is done to create controversy.
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The desire to work with Burrows-Charles was really to change NBC's identity, to say, "We want to be in the sophisticated-adult-comedy business."
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You have two choices when someone changes your work. You can either wash your hands of it or embrace it.
